Author: Heinrich Böll
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780140187243
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Robert Faehmel finds his structured life threatened by an old schoolmate and former Nazi

Author: Heinrich Böll
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810111479
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Author: Heinrich Boll
Publisher: Melville House
ISBN: 1935554964
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466

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Cited by the Nobel Prize committee as the “crown” of Heinrich Böll’s work, the gripping story of Group Portrait With Lady unspools like a suspenseful documentary. Via a series of tense interviews, an unnamed narrator uncovers the story—past and present—of one of Böll’s most intriguing characters, the enigmatic Leni Pfeiffer, a struggling war widow. At the center of her struggle is her effort to prevent the demolition of her Cologne apartment building, a fight in which she is joined by a motley group of neighbors. Along with her illegitimate son, Lev, she becomes the nexus of a countercultural group rebelling against Germany’s dehumanizing past under the Nazis ... and what looks to be an equally dehumanizing future under capitalism.

Author: Heinrich Boll
Publisher: Melville House
ISBN: 1935554832
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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A unique entry in the Böll library, Irish Journal records an eccentric tour of Ireland in the 1950's. An epilogue written fourteen years later reflects on the enormous changes to the country and the people that Böll loved. Irish Journal is a time capsule of a land and a way of life that has disappeared.

Author: Heinrich Böll
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810112070
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 710

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Contains 63 stories and novellas by one of Germany's greatest writers.

Author: Heinrich Böll
Publisher: Melville House
ISBN: 193555431X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337

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At the center of a terrorized society buttressed by oppressive police protection and surveillance is the Tolm family, Fritz, the father, the elected head of the Association, and the children, part of the counter-culture.

Author: Heinrich Böll
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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A young woman's association with a hunted man makes her the target of a journalist determined to grab headlines by portraying her as an evil woman. As the attacks on her escalate and she becomes the victim of anonymous threats, Katharina sees only one way out of her nightmare.

Author: Heinrich Böll
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810112063
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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With the publication of Tomorrow and Yesterday, Heinrich Boll was truly regarded as the spokesman of modern Germany. Boll's novel is the story of a group of families living in a house in Germany. The members of each generation - those who lived through the war, and those conceived and born during its terror - must assess their pasts and their collective futures. This moving story is the crowning achievement of Boll's extraordinary career.

Author: Heinrich Boll
Publisher: Melville House
ISBN: 1935554859
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Acclaimed entertainer Hans Schneir collapses when his beloved Marie leaves him because he won’t marry her within the Catholic Church. The desertion triggers a searing re-examination of his life—the loss of his sister during the war, the demands of his millionaire father and the hypocrisies of his mother, who first fought to “save” Germany from the Jews, then worked for “reconciliation” afterwards. Heinrich Böll’s gripping consideration of how to overcome guilt and live up to idealism—how to find something to believe in—gives stirring evidence of why he was such an unwelcome presence in post-War German consciousness . . . and why he was such a necessary one.

Author: Heinrich Böll
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810112087
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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In 1981, Heinrich Boll returned to the streets of his childhood in this remarkable collection of nonfiction. This volume captures the musings of a mature Boll as he looks back with fondness and with anger on his formative years: as a student who avoided school but lived for his education on the street; and as a young man forced to grapple with the moral horror that was Hitler. What's to Become of the Boy - superbly translated by Leila Vennewitz - provides uncommon insight into Boll's maturation as an author and as a man.